Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[PollyannaMom]

My grandma - who taught me how to reuse everything

My 7th grade math teacher - who nurtured my confidence and made math really fun

My elementary school librarian - who taught me how to how the most out of the library

 

[bluecastle]

My elementary school music teacher and my choir director: both depended on me to sing harmony without straying to the melody like most kids would do. They did a lot to help my self-esteem.

My 6th grade teacher: she believed I could be a writer. (yet, I became a teacher instead!)

My daughter, as well as all my students, taught me so much about myself.

 

[PollyannaMom]

It is...

and also...


so for Today's Topic (Wed, 5/7) choose whichever of those inspires you (or mix & match)

 

[slo]

Good Wednesday Morning!

#1 - Long Bike Rides With My Grandpa - I have the best memories of my grandpa and I taking long bike rides when I was kid. He didn’t believe in sitting around, so him and I were always doing things together.

#2 - Riding My Bike To Friends Houses - I rode my bike everywhere as a kid. I was allowed to go to any friends house in my subdivision. I wasn’t allowed to ride my bike in the dark, so when the street lights came on is when I had to come home.

#3 - Brown Paper Bags - I always make sure I have lots of these at home, because I use them all the time. Main thing I use them for is recycling - there’s a brown bag next to the kitchen garbage can so we can easily put the recycling in it and when it’s full, then the full bag goes in the recycling can outside.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

No bike as a kid and lived off a street that was super busy like a small highway so no bike riding here …. We ( my friends and me ) walked everywhere we went and where I live there’s no sidewalk you’re lucky if there’s shoulders on the roads you’re literally walking alongside highways to get where you wanna go because you know we didn’t have cars either we had to walk
My friends didn’t have bikes either so if we want to get to somebody’s house we walked we cut through subdivisions when you knew all the shortcuts so I have lots of fun memories of us planning out where we wanted to go and how we were gonna get there and meet up halfway and then cutting through somebody’s yard to get into a shortcut so we can get to a store or to a restaurant or something or the summer we all had to take drivers ed and all of us walking up to the school so we could take driver ed then all this walking home now keep in mind we we’re all walking alongside a highway to get home - can you imagine kids doing that these days? I know I never would allowed my kids to do that!!!

Brown paper bags - absolutely love them not only are they great for bringing your groceries home but they’re always nice to have a few around when you need to wrap a package to send it in the mail! You could always find a good use for a brown paper bag

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning

I will always smile to remember my beloved late grandpa was who taught me to ride my red bike

Dear Slo and dear WDWEPCOT, dad and I use brown paper lunch bags daily. He brings refridgerated food in an insulated lunch bag and extra pudding cups for me and dessert for himself in the paper bag. YEARS ago, my beloved late grandma made covers for my school books out of brown paper grocery bags.

Amazon and other packages that are delivered sure are handy to get.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

The kids' first good bikes and the greenbelts - When we moved to this house, we realized the kids would have some days where they'd need to get themselves to and from school. The greenbelts leading to their respective schools meant very little time on the actual road with the dangers of traffic and good bikes meant peace of mind that there would be fewer issues.

Office bike - I have a stationary bike in my office that's been instrumental in several of my journeys to recapture better health.

Kid bike seat - When I was young, my dad used to bike all over the place with me in one of those kiddie seats tethered to his 10-speed. It was always such a cool feeling to go riding all over.